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» Miscellaneous Essays and Papers
Would You Recommend That We Redraw State Boundaries? Why Or Why Not?
<view this essay>.... by climate, by interest…? Changing boundaries will cause many conflicts within states because each will be interested in gaining not losing. Texas will not be willing to give up part of their land and California will refuse to lose some of their population. These are powers not willingly given up by states. One example is in Bowman/Kearney where New York and New Jersey disputed the ownership of Ellis Island for 200 years. Even though it was finally decided by the Supreme that both would receive ownership, it foresees problems of redistribution.
Also, if boundaries were redrawn states can possibly lose a large amount of resources and population. .....
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Longs Peak
<view this essay>.... the park as well as from
distant cities such as Denver or Boulder, which were well
over fifty miles away. The mountain held an intense
mystification for me. It reminded me of a Cardinals game,
which I saw prior to my visit to Estes Park. Mark McGuire
was coming up to bat, and shocks rippled down my spine
when I saw him. An atomic power radiated from him. Even
though there were several other players on the field I
simply could not keep my eyes off him. Longs Peak also
stood head and shoulders over the other players.
I had to climb Longs Peak before I left Estes Park.
I felt a call that told me if I failed to climb the
mountain I would be .....
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Ebonics
<view this essay>.... language and see no other way than the use of Standard English.
Although many Americans tend to scorn any careless variation of the Standard English, flexibility of the language is, perhaps, a main reason for its survival. In 1905, a Danish scholar and great authority on English, Otto Jespersen, wrote:
English is like an English park, which is laid out seemingly without any
definite plan, and which you are allowed to walk everywhere according
to your own fancy without having a fear a stern keeper enforcing rigorous
regulations. (MacNeil 141)
This freedom has created the English we speak today. Although a little behind the times, Oxford changes the .....
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Student's Rights
<view this essay>.... I realized why our School Board may not want
students realizing what we are actually entitled to. Right away in the Preamble,
it states "students have the responsibility to respect rights of all persons
involved in the educational process and exercise the highest degree of self-
discipline in observing and adhering to legitimate rules." The first thing I
thought was "WOW! That sounds great! The School Board really trusts me as a
free-thinking individual to respect people and be respected. I love this
school!" But wait. Before we all stage an "I love Cheryl Wilhoyte" love-fest,
let's take a look at what these "legitimate rules" are, particularly as they .....
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Facts That Lead To Poverty: Th
<view this essay>.... be defined as: 1) the condition or quality of being poor 2) deficiency; inadequacy 3) scarcity (Webster’s p.461). Generally in this essay, we will examine the facts that lead to the poverty of these third world and southern countries.
The first and the most serious problem that causes by poverty are hunger, or preciously, malnutrition. We can find these kinds of problems almost all over Africa and some other underdeveloped countries. These were witnessed by thousands of people through TV, radio, newspaper, journals, etc. “In the early 1980s, the mass media dramatically brought us the picture of hunger from Africa – starving children .....
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Caborn - Geography
<view this essay>.... and highway 62. The Ohio River in the southern area of the study region is one of the main transportation routes. The Southwind Maritime Center is a river port located on the Ohio River and is located on the west side of the map. This port is a state-of-the-art river port with advanced material handling technologies. The port is specifically designed to handle in or out bound container cargo. The port is also a designated Foreign Trade Zone providing advantages to companies in this area involved in international trade. This Port is more than 740 acres and is home to a wide variety of companies. The Southwind Maritime Center is also easily accessible .....
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Victims Of Divorce
<view this essay>.... separations of parents. According to the information statistics on divorce, each year since the mid-1970s, more than 1 million children have experienced a family divorce. "It is projected that nearly half of all the babies born today will spend some time in a one-parent family which occurred as a result of single parenthood or divorce" (Shiono and Quinn 15). This fact indicates that the future of this world will be in the hands of the people who have lived through at least one divorce. That's why, there should be more emphasis given to divorce and more solutions should be presented for the well being of our children.
Although the parents are not the only ones w .....
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Bermuda Triangle
<view this essay>.... This area occupies a disturbing and almost unbelievable place in the world’s catalogue of unexplainable mysteries. In the more than 100 planes and ships have literally vanished into thin air, most of them since 1945. More than 1,000 lives have been lost in the past twenty-six years, without a single body or even a piece of wreckage from the vanishing planes or ships having been found. Disappearances continue to occur with apparently increasing frequency, in spite of the fact that the seaways and airways are today more traveled, searches are more thorough, and records are more carefully kept (Berlitz 1).
During the past century more than 50 ships and 20 ai .....
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